Anarchy in America?

Published: February 4, 1996

To the Editor:

Thomas L. Friedman (column, Jan. 28) suggests that Africa is "a freshman Republican's paradise" because there are no taxpayers to finance a welfare state: that "in Rwanda and Burundi, no one is asked to pay for Head Start," and that, instead, the Tutsi and the Hutu revert to genocide "to grab more resources."